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ANGEL

Carola Dunn

How many of Lady Evangelina Brent-havcn’s eightcen offers of marriage (from eminently eligible suitors) have been in-spircd by her cxquisitely heart-shaped face, her melting blue eyes, her golden ringlets, her enormous fortunę, or the fact ihat she is the bcloved only child of a mar-quis? And how many by true, disinter-ested love? These questions trouble the irrepressible Angel, and they are what prompt her to spend her summer in the Lakę Country with her parson uncle’s family disguised as plain Miss Evelyn Brand, who pins up her curls under caps and wears unadorned and rather unfash-ionably drab gowns.

But disguise herself as she may, it takes morę than an alias and dreary clothing to dampen the spirits of the enterprising Angel. While hoping to find a gentleman who will love her for herself and whom she can love unreservedly back, she busies herself with finding a husband for her blucstocking cousin Catherine and arrang-ing the courtship of her new friend, shy Lady Elizabeth Markham. The impetuous Angel is never at a loss for schemes to bring together thoseiovers she has decided should be brought together, but things sccm to have a way of straightening them-sclves out in spite of her, rather than bccause of the arrangements she makes. In many cases, Angel herself is the last to hccome aware of the true State of things.

Always delightful, with a serious turn at timcs, the events of Angel's summer make a tharming and engrossing Regency tale. And bcfore the story is over, its irresistible heroinę finds highly satisfactory answers to the questions that have troubled her.